Prisons archive

Record prison deaths reported amid endemic drug crisis

• Amaris Lambert
• 19 Feb
• News, Prisons

Drugs and drone incursions worsening safety at HMP Olney

• Clarice Jenner
• 18 Feb
• News, Prisons

‘Chronic underfunding’ causing ‘disappointing’ conditions in Magistrate Court custody

• Molly Tripe
• 17 Feb
• Courts, News, Prisons

HMP Parc still failing on violence and self-harm

• Matthew Taylor
• 17 Feb
• News, Prisons

Systemic prison failures led to fifth death at HMP Lowdham Grange

• Jack Horwood
• 9 Feb
• News, Prisons

72% of prisons overcrowded with ‘runaway sentence inflation’ behind overburdened jails

• Emma Sansum-Wall
• 9 Feb
• News, Prisons

Inquest finds ‘serious failings’ at HMP Pentonville led to suicide

• Cerys Isaac
• 6 Feb
• News, Prisons

Government sets out plans for ‘supermax-style’ prison units

• Fay Sansum-Wall
• 5 Feb
• News, Prisons

Staffing failures exacerbating ‘inadequate’ regime at Whitemoor prison

• Anjola Fadugba
• 4 Feb
• News, Prisons

Government announces ‘alarming’ and ‘inadequate’ cuts to prison education

• Gia Khaira
• 3 Feb
• News, Prisons

Rising prison death toll a ‘national scandal’

• Isabelle Talbot
• 3 Feb
• News, Prisons

Decision on PAVA spray use against children shows ‘how toxic prison system has become’

• Samantha Dulieu
• 19 Jan
• News, Prisons

HMP Featherstone failing to curb ready availability of drugs

• Samantha Dulieu
• 14 Jan
• News, Prisons

10 more years of women’s prison deaths reveal system ‘incapable of reform’

• Samantha Dulieu
• 4 Dec
• News, Prisons, Women

Feltham prison still plagued by serious failings and worsening violence

• GloriaRose Mushi
• 2 Dec
• News, Prisons